Re: lock listing

Neil Conway wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 05:52:39PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I agree with Peter that it is better to rename it pg_lock*.  The show
> > isn't needed and it makes it look more like our other system info
> > tables.
>
> Well, it's not a system info table -- it's a built-in function, and I'm
> not aware of any naming conventions for those. Personally, I find it a
> bit confusing to do:
>
>     SELECT * FROM pg_tables;
>     SELECT * FROM pg_class;
>     /* ... */
>     SELECT * FROM pg_locks();
>
> However, I'm not really worried about the name, so I've changed it
> to pg_locks() -- a revised patch is attached.

Oh, I see.  Should we make it appear as a table rather than a function?
Does that make any sense?

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